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Remote DBA, 24 x 7 support, APEX development, database performance and SQL tuning.
Installations, patching. Systems design. Oracle Database licensing specialists.
APEX development experts available for short and long-term assignments. Full APEX life-cycle application development.
OS services and support (Solaris & Linux) and licensing specialists. Hardware including new T4-2 server
Information Technology training since 1994. Custom on-site training and instructor-led hands-on online classes.
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April 24 - Free Online Training – Oracle SQL Seminar Series - Part IV – Single Row Functions. Free live training for anyone interested in Oracle11g. April 4 - Free Online Training – Favorite Application Express 4.2 New Features in Action. Free live training for anyone interested in Oracle Application Express (APEX). March 28 - Free Online Training – The Top Ten Oracle Performance Tuning Mistakes: Long Full Table Scans. A Free Tutorial.. Free live training for anyone interested in Oracle11g. March 6 - Free Online Training – Taking Control: Integrating PL/SQL APIs with APEX. Free live training for anyone interested in Oracle Application Express (APEX). February 21 - Free Online Training – Oracle 11g Grid Infrastructure Free Tutorial. What is Grid Infrastructure? (Hint: It's not Grid Control.) February 20 - Free Online Training – Using ApexSec to Develop Secure Oracle APEX Applications. Free live training for anyone interested in Oracle Application Express (APEX). February 6 - Free Online Training – The Top Ten Oracle Performance Tuning Mistakes: Connection Management. Oracle Database Performance Tuning Tutorial: The Top Ten Mistakes, Session 1 Dec 20, 2012 - Free Online Training – Oracle ASM Free Tutorial. How to tune your disc I/O: let ASM do it for you Dec 5, 2012 - Free Online Training – Zen and the Art of Mobile Development. In this session, attendees will learn about the most common patterns in mobile UI design as well as how such designs can be constructed in Oracle Application Express. Nov 7, 2012 - Free Online Training – Oracle Data Guard Free Tutorial: Data Guard for Performance and Reduced Licensing Costs. Free live training for anyone interested in Oracle11g. Nov 5, 2012 – Dan McGhan will be a primary speaker at APEX Latin America 2012. Are you planning on attending APEX Latin America 2012? Our Oracle ACE Dan McGhan is a primary speaker. View an exclusive interview with Dan, where he tells us everything about APEX and how we can start using this great tool. Learn more here:
Oct 3, 2012 – Dan McGhan will be at Oracle OpenWorld. Are you planning on attending Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco, CA ? If yes, don't forget to see our Oracle ACE Dan McGhan deliver the following presentation:
Sep 27, 2012 - Free Online Training – Securing Oracle APEX An Overview of Exploits and Solutions. In this session attendees will see live demos of certain exploits, including Cross Site Scripting and SQL injection, and subsequently learn how to protect against them using the correct feature(s) in APEX or Oracle in general. Sep 12, 2012 - Free Online Training – SkillBuilders | Oracle 11g SQL Tuning Free Tutorial. Watch John demonstrate how SQL statements that produce equivalent result sets can have radically different response times, why this happens and common solutions. Sep 11, 2012 – Dan McGhan will be at ODTUG APEXposed 2012. Are you planning on attending ODTUG APEXposed 2012 in Montreal, Canada ? If yes, don't forget to see our Oracle ACE Dan McGhan deliver the following presentation:
Jul 26, 2012 - Free Online Training – Application Express 4.1 New Features in Action. In this session, Dan and Tyson have picked out their top 10 favorite new features and will demonstrate them live in turn. Jun 27, 2012 – Dan McGhan will be at ODTUG KSCOPE 12. Our Oracle ACE Dan McGhan delivered the following presentations at Kscope 12 in San Antonio, Texas:
Apr 11, 2012 - Free Online Training – Solaris 11 New Features - ZFS File System Enhancements. Solaris 11 New Features, ZFS Enhancements Feb 29, 2012 - Free Online Training – Oracle OCA/OCP Exam Tutorial - Data Retrieval with SQL SELECT . Oracle Certification Seminar Series - Part Two - Data Retrieval Feb 8, 2012 - Free Online Training – Oracle Database 11g New Features Adaptive Cursor Sharing. Oracle Database 11g New Features Adaptive Cursor Sharing Jan 12, 2012 - Free Online Training – SkillBuilders Oracle APEX Plug-In Super LOV 2.0. Free live training for anyone interested in Oracle Application Express (APEX). Dec 22, 2011 - Free Online Training – Free Tutorial - ZFS Management System / ZFS Storage Appliance . Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances - A Demonstration Nov 30, 2011 - Free Online Training – Oracle Database 11g New Features SQL Plan Management Baselining. Oracle Database 11g: The Upgrade Motivators - Session Two - SQL Plan Management. A Free Tutorial. Nov 10, 2011 - Free Online Training – Oracle Database 11g New Features Parallel Processing and the Results Cache. Oracle Database 11g New Features: Free Tutorial Parallel Processing and Results Cache Nov 4, 2011 - Free Online Training – Learn How To Use Oracle Subqueries. SQL is a language that allows you to perform queries to answer a wide range of questions about your data. Subqueries provide powerful solutions to support a host of complex queries. Oct 26, 2011 - Free Online Training – Rapid Deployment of Logical Domains. Learn how to use ZFS backend storage for rapid deployment of Oracle VM Server for SPARC logical domains running the Solaris operating system. Oct 25, 2011 - Free Online Training – Don't Do That! (in PL/SQL) with Steven Feuerstein. Don't Do That! (in PL/SQL) with Steven Feuerstein, A Free PL/SQL Tutorial Oct 5, 2011 - Free Online Training – Installing Oracle VM Server for SPARC (formerly Solaris Logical Domains) on SPARC T-series Servers. Free training for Solaris Administrators on Oracle VM Server Sep 9, 2011 - Free Online Training – Introduction to Advanced Ruby: What Makes Ruby Special. Free Ruby language training for developers who have a basic understanding of Ruby. Aug 31, 2011 - Free Online Training – Introducing SkillBuilders Modal Page Plug-in. Free live training for anyone interested in Oracle Application Express (APEX). Aug 25, 2011 - Free Online Training – Oracle Stretched (Extended) Clusters: Zero Downtime, Zero Data Loss with Oracle RAC and ASM. Free live training for anyone interested in Oracle11g. Aug 17, 2011 - Free Online Training – Keys to Oracle Certification. Free live training for anyone interested in Oracle11g. July 20 - Free Online Training – Working with Oracle 11g Feedback-Based Optimization. Free live training for anyone familiar with an Oracle database... June 17 - A Free Day of Technical Sessions on Oracle Database 11g – Providence College
June 14 - Free Online Training – jQuery in APEX - An Introduction for Database Developers. Free live training for anyone working with or interested in Oracle Application Express. April 27 - Free Online Training – Learn How To Use Oracle Analytic Functions. This presentation will show you how to use Oracle's Analytic Function extensions to SQL to answer questions about running totals, percent of total, ranking within a group, and more complex issues such as Top-N within a group and aggregates over a range. April 14 - Free Online Training – Working with Oracle 11g SQL Plan Management. A free live training for anyone familiar with an Oracle database... April 6 - Free Online Training – Solaris Network Failover and Load Spreading Features. February 22 - Free Online Training – Taking Advantage of Plug-ins in APEX, Dan McGhan, SkillBuilders. Audience - Anyone working with or interested in Oracle Application Express February 3 - Free Online Training – jQuery in APEX - An Introduction for Database Developers. Audience - Anyone working with or interested in Oracle Application Express February 2 - Featured Online Classes – High-Performance PL/SQL with Steven Feuerstein. After attending this session, you will be able to pro-actively identify opportunities for applying techniques that will most dramatically (generally, an order or magnitude or more) improve the performance of your PL/SQL code. January 13 - Free Online Training – Dynamic Actions in APEX 4.0: What's Possible, What's Not, and How to Bridge the Gap. Audience - Anyone working with or interested in Oracle Application Express December 8 – Dave Anderson presented What You Should Know About 11g CBO at the NYC Metro Area Oracle Users Group Meeting. Learn what's different about cost-based optimization in 11g Release 2... December 8 - Featured Online Classes – Groovy and Grails for SunGard Banner Developers – The next version of SunGard Banner uses the Groovy programming language for its business rules and the Grails framework for applications development. Groovy and Grails are new, state-of-the-art technologies... December 7 - Featured Online Classes – PL/SQL Lunch Series with Steven Feuerstein – We welcome back PL/SQL master Steven Feuerstein, who will present three two-hour webinars: Turbo-charge PL/SQL Execution with Bulk Processing, Writing Maintainable PL/SQL Code and Error Management Features of Oracle PL/SQL... Recorded November 12 - Free Online Training – Web Development with Ruby On Rails – Learn about the basic components of the Rails framework and see how to create and test a very simple web application that you can build upon... November 11 - SkillBuilders APEX expert Dan McGhan presented at ODTUG APEXPOSED 2010 in Dallas: "Dynamic Actions in APEX 4.0: What's Possible, What's Not and How to Bridge the Gap." Dan explores the declarative side of Dynamic Actions to find out what's possible and what's not, and demonstrates what you need to know to bridge the gap. Recorded September 29 - Free Online Training – The Right Way to Secure Oracle – Most companies use the checklist/tip based approach to secure their databases BUT this is flawed as the checklists available for hardening are based around parameters and the core database software not the data.... Recorded August 4 - Free Online Training – Oracle Application Express "Plug-Ins" – This high level introduction to plug-ins will demonstrate how they can save your organization development time and money. Receive the next SkillBuilders plug-in – one week before its release to the general public... Recorded July 9 - Free Online Training – Rapid Development with the Grails Platform – Grails is a dynamic-language based, complete-stack framework that brings simplicity and elegance to web development. It uses the Groovy programming language... Recorded June 29 at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 – Free Online Training – JavaScript in APEX: A Lesson for the PL/SQL Developer – Oracle Application Express developers often have strong backgrounds in SQL and PL/SQL, but JavaScript is another story. However, JavaScript is a very important part of any well-built Web 2.0 application... Recorded June 23 - Free Online Training – Oracle Application Express Version 4.0 is a Game Changer – APEX 4.0 is a game changer – and it's closer than you may think! Some of the highlights of the release include Improved Interactive Reports, Websheets, Dynamic Actions and Plug-Ins... Recorded June 17 - Free Online Training – Learn How To Use Oracle Analytic Functions – SQL allows you to perform queries to answer a wide range of questions about your data. While standard SQL is quite powerful, there are many questions that it cannot answer or can only answer with complex, inefficient workarounds.... Recorded June 4 - Free Online Training – Groovy for Java Developers – Groovy is part of the new generation of dynamic languages for the JVM. It's not intended to replace Java, but rather... Recorded May 5 - Free Online Training – Oracle Application Express as a Reporting Solution – Learn how to use APEX to build applications used solely for reporting purposes. Topics include: Creating both standard and interactive reports... April 5-6 - Featured Class – "Best of PL/SQL!" with Steven Feuerstein. Sheraton Needham, MA. – Learn about the most important features of the PL/SQL language from Oracle Ace and PL/SQL expert Steven Feuerstein, focusing on the major advances... Recorded March 5 - Free Online Training – Designer/Developer Workflow with Flex 4 and Flash Catalyst Flex 4 and Flash Catalyst provide the easiest and most rapid way to build engaging Rich Internet Applications today. In this webinar, we show you how to use Flash Catalyst to convert a designer's Photoshop file into a Flex 4 UI... Presented February 3 - Free Online Training – jQuery Tabs in Oracle Application Express (Apex) Many developers and organizations are looking for ways to take their Application Express (Apex) applications to the next level. On the client side, one of the best tools available for this purpose is jQuery and jQuery UI... Recorded January 12 - Free Online Training – Using the Oracle 11g SQL Results Cache Learn how to configure and use the Oracle Database 11g SQL Results Cache in this webinar. Dave will teach the fundamentals of the cache, then demonstrate how to configure, use, monitor and do performance testing using the results cache... Presented December 10 - Free Online Training – Introduction to Oracle Application Express (Apex) Application Express is an easy to use platform for developing data-centric web based applications...What can Apex do for me or my organization?...What features are available? more... Presented December 8 - Dave Anderson presented "Oracle 11g Cache Features" at NYOUG's 25th Anniversary Metro Area Meeting – links to the presentation and scripts are here. Recorded November 18 - Free Online Training – Oracle Forms to Oracle APEX – A Migration Roadmap Oracle Application Express (Apex) provides an HTML-based migration path for Oracle Forms applications while leveraging existing SQL and PL/SQL knowledge. Learn about the main differences between object-oriented platforms... Recorded November 3 - Free Online Training – "Look What You Can Do With PL/SQL!" with Steven Feuerstein This webinar provides a whirlwind tour of some of the most exciting features of PL/SQL that you all should know about and use, including DBMS_ERRLOG, FORALL, BULK COLLECT and DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_ERROR_BACKTRACE.... Recorded October 21 - Free Online Training – Introduction to Oracle Application Express (Apex) Application Express is an easy to use platform for developing data-centric web based applications...What can Apex do for me or my organization?...What features are available? more... Recorded October 5 - Customizing Oracle Grid Control with User Defined Metrics and Reports. Learn how to use "User Defined Metrics" in Oracle Grid Control. This session is going to be highly technical in nature. Topics include... Recorded September 23 - Free Online Training – Oracle Security: Guidelines for an Effective Audit. This webinar outlines the need for securing Oracle, and explores the traditional approach versus the correct approach. Topics include... Recorded September 17 - Free Online Training – jQuery Tabs in Oracle Application Express. Many developers and organizations are looking for ways to take their Application Express (Apex) applications to the next level. On the client side, jQuery and jQuery UI.... Presented September 9 - Free Online Introduction to Oracle Data Guard Training. What is High Availability? What is Disaster Recovery? And why do we need them? This webinar, geared toward both technical staff and management... Recorded August 12, 2009 - Free Online Training: Scaling to Infinity – Partitioning Data Warehouses on Oracle. Learn the basic design issues necessary to scaling data warehouses in size while maintaining performance and manageability... June 5, 2009 - Free Oracle 11g New Features Training Part II. Learn about the native compilation feature for PL/SQL, and Database Replay... May 19, 2009 - Free Oracle 11g New Features Training. Learn about performance enhancements, including improved analysis of Wait Events... April 20, 2009 - SkillBuilders announces a displaced worker training program. Receive tuition savings of 50% on... Recorded April 13, 2009 - Free Oracle SQL Tuning Training: Analyzing Execution Plans Learn to find inefficiencies in statement processing and how to identify operations that.... April 3, 2009 - Free Oracle Application Express Training "Shared Spreadsheet Nightmares? Oracle APEX to the Rescue!" Learn to create an APEX application...free. March 20, 2009 - Ed Whalen presents online Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Training. View recorded training, free.. February 27, 2009 - Geoff Wiland teaches Oracle PL/SQL "Understanding and Using PL/SQL Arrays and Bulk Processing" View recorded training, free.. February 23, 2009 - XML Training by Geoff Wiland, SkillBuilders "Understanding and Using XML" View Recorded Presentation (free) December 8, 2008 - Online Oracle Database training calendar updated - more Advanced SQL Queries for Oracle 10g classes scheduled. September 16, 2008 - SkillBuilders announces immediate release of Oracle Database 11g New Features Workshop for Administrators (DBAs) August 19, 2008 - SkillBuilders launches Oracle Application Express (APEX) Workshop for Release 3.1. This hands-on training is offered online and in-classroom... View the detailed Course Outline August 12, 2008 1 PM EST - Free Online Training Session: Solaris Network Failover and Load Spreading Features. June 26, 2008 - Free Online Training Session: Effective Use of Oracle SQL Trace, presented by Dan Fink, Oracle Oak Table Member. Click here for the recorded presentation June 2, 2008 - Oracle Tuning webinars "Free Yourself of Statspack" scheduled for June 4 (India) June 5 (US and UK). Oracle Performance class (instructor-led, online) starts June 11. April 2, 2008 - Online Oracle Database class calendar updated. Free 11g and XML DB webinars scheduled. March 25 and 26, 2008 - SkillBuilders hosted Oracle Business Intelligence Tech Days in Hartford, CT (3/25) and Providence, RI (3/26). Click here for more information.. March 24, 2008 - We've added new free practice exams for Oracle 10g and 9i, Java, Security and more, and new free tutorials. Click here for tutorials and here for exams (free registration required). March 13, 2008 - Geoff Wiland presented Part II of his "XML in Oracle" presentation at the NYOUG Long Island SIG meeting. Click here to download the presentation. Click here for the scripts. March 5, 2008 - New online class schedule is posted. Schedule, Course Descriptions and Registration. January 29, 2008 - Geoff Wiland presented "XML in Oracle" Part I at the NYOUG Long Island SIG meeting. Click here to download the presentation. January 17, 2008 - Kyle Hailey, Oracle Oak Table Member, presented Oracle Performance Tuning with Average Active Sessions. Download the presentation. (317kb PDF) |